Creative Audigy Sound Blaster, Sounds Better on Vista!

I just downloaded the New Drivers for My Creative Audigy 2 ZS Sound Blaster,and installed them to my Vista Machine, I have Creative Audigy 2 ZS with a PCI Sound Card and Logitech Z-680THZ 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers, and they Blew Me away with the Awesome Sound Quality on Vista They sounded good on XP, but Wow! This Rocks!!!

 

i didnt think there was any creative drivers for there sound cards on vista yet...
ive got the same sound card
lodore

 

I believe that virtually any audio hardware sounds better on Vista than on XP...Possibly due to new driver model and quality control.

 

Are you sure about that ?

 

nice acticle
I like the "creative (and other) are naturally pissed"
lodore

 

Are you using analog or digital connections?

 

I like to know what drivers you are using because my Audigy 4 7.1 sounds like it is coming from a bottom of a well, lol.

 

I think this is more of a placebo effect then anything (vista won't sound as good, drivers aren't completely ready, and drm limits the quality in order to prevent copying)

Alphalutra1

 

Here you go lodore

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?MainCategory=1&nRegionFK=&nCountryFK=&nLanguageFK=&sOSName=Windows+Vista+32-bit&region=1&Product_Name=Audigy+2+ZS&Product_ID=4915&modelnumber=&driverlang=1033&OS=26&drivertype=0&x=28&y=13

Go to your control panel after downloading, and adjust the settings from there

 

Analog, Digital is more expensive

 

Erm Yes I'm Sure

 

have you played any of the games mentioned?
and if so how do they sound?
lodore

 

For general games that use DirectSound, Vista should in fact be better in quality. But no EAX, and thats the real bummer. Plus, no hardware acceleration, which means all surround sound and Sensaura algorithms go down the drain.

Basically, what you're getting is two-channel audio upmixed to 6 speakers, sounds real good, but loses the surround effect.

 

I fixed my sound problem by replacing the Audigy 4 with a X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro. Using Alchemy I now have EAX in COD2 and in Quake 4 using OpenAL. I did have problems at first with the speaker test failing but moving the card to another slot fixed it.